LGBTQ Groups Adjust to More Married Donors

By Eden Stiffman and Megan O’Neil

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THE PRICE OF VICTORY: After the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal everywhere, fundraisers for groups that advocated for the change found a new challenge: Single people weren’t the vast majority of the donor pool.

The revolution in civil and legal rights for LGBTQ Americans has wrought a parallel shift in fundraising tactics for nonprofits that worked to bring about those changes. Charities that once focused mostly on unmarried, often childless people are now...